Did you know that there is such a thing as left handed scissors??

I am left handed and have a number of left handed tools. The best is when my husband picks up my left handed can opener, I should get it on video, it could win an oscar.

I am left handed also and I need to use left handed scissors, but I don't. Actually, there is a whole store online just for left handed people. I think I visited there once, but I did not find anything that I just had to have.

Hi Miami,yes,I found out about them when I started sharpening scissors,the first time I got them I could not figure out how to clamp them,it took a bit,but I did figure it out.lol

I had one sister who was left-handed and she loved left-handed scissors. They fit the hand better. I accidentally found them the other day and tried to use them like any other scissors, in my right hand, and they felt funny and it took me awhile to figure out why.

I am right handed as are the rest of my family but I trained as a nursery nurse (or an early childhood educator as they are now called!) and I saw lots of different gadgets made specifically for those who are left handed! I am not sure about if they are better for your son but I know that a lot of children do find life a lot easier with things that are properly designed for those who are left handed! xx

Yes I knew that. All my exes have all been left handed, which is kind of weird now that I think of it. But he had them and I tried using them and I was like what's wrong with these scissors? And then I found out that they were for lefties.

Yes I knew about them, they have the cutting edges the opposite way around to make it easier to cut with your left hand. Although I am right handed, I do a lot of things naturally left handed (but not write though), which seems to confuse a lot of people. I normally use right handed scissors, as they are a lot more common, I've never tried using left handed ones, with my left hand. Left handed items are now becoming more common, although they are usually more expensive.

I am left=handed and I have to use left-handed scissors. The blades are set the opposite way then for right handers. If we use right-handed scissors, we have to use them backwards which makes it awkward for me. Right handed people do not understand that somethings are harder for us to manage unless we have some skill and are not afraid of cutting ourselves. Just take a look at potato peelers, a right handed person can peel away from herself, but unless we have one with the blades sharpened on both ends, we have to peel backwards. When I use my husband's nail scissors, I have to cut my nails with my palm up, making it a bit difficult. So left=handed scissors are much better and necessary.

I am left handed and have heard of left handed scissors but I don't buy them. I use the regular ones and I have no problem with them.

No. I didn't know that. I thought they were all the same wow I just learned something (LOL) thanks.

Ooh I need to get one for my son as he is lefthanded too. I never thought that they sold left handed scissors thanks for that bit of info.

Being left handed... I know about them. Did you ever see the scissors provided in elementary school? Remember the ones with the green rubber coating on the handles? Those were lefties. Of course, I always (somehow) ended up in a class with 4 or 5 lefties and only 2 or 3 pairs of left handed scissors. So I cut with my right hand.

My youngest daughter 20. She is left-handed, well I say she is left fingered; she is right-armed. And a great switch-hitter. I don't remember when we got her left handed scissors. But I don't think it was before she was nine or ten. Before that, she used the child type one that at least look like they are good for either right or left handed people. She says they're not. Are your kids allowed to take scissors to school? The kids here are not!

Ever since kindergarten. There were lefty pairs of scissors so there were not strains on the fingers and thumbs.

I had absolutely no idea! Although it would make perfect sense to make scissors that would be more convenient for left handers to use, after all they arent that much of a minority, quite a number of people are left handed

I'm left-handed, and I always had a terrible time with "regular" (right-handed) scissors. When I was little Mom bought me a pair of left-handed scissors, and I have not hae problems with schissors, since then. They work really well for me.

You are talking to a lefty that can't use lefthanded scissors.What I use are sewing scissors. Both finger holes are the same size.They are made by singer.when I was in school I couldn't cut with the righthanded scissors where one finger hole was bigger than the other.F.Y.I. August 13th is Lefthanders day. Next year have fun. do something extra special for your son on that day.

I would love to know where you purchase lef handed scissors because my middle child and sister is left handed. And I beleive it would make it som much easier for them.

Yes- They make a variety of things for left handers like myself. And yes- the sissors make a world of difference to us lefty's. I have included links here to show you where I purchase my left handed things. The notebooks for left handers are the best- because it is very uncomfortable for us to write with the binding on the left side of the book. http://www.binders.com/sitehtml/products/left_handed_products.phtml http://www.anythingleft-handed.co.uk

I'm left handed, and let me just say, I don't use anything especially geared to being left handed. However, that's probably just because I've grown accustomed to forcing right handed objects to work. When I was little, my father would yell at me for getting marker on my hand and arm, but how can a left handed person help that? Your hand goes right over whatever you just wrote, smudging everything. I know some left handed people do that weird thing where they basically turn their paper upside down to write, but I never did that. I also hated desks in school, because they never had a left handed one in any of my classes, so I had to sit sideways. As far as the scissors go, I don't even know if I could cut with my left hand now that I have been programmed to use my right! On the positive side, those of us who are left handed certainly tend to be more adept at using our non preferred hand when necessary.